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Subject: Re: <net/if_var.h>
From: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * > When was this introduced, and is there any way for me to check if it is
 * > present?  (BSD > xxxx, for instance?)
 * 
 * #include <osreldate.h>
 * 
 * #if __FreeBSD_version >= 199702
 * # define NEED_NET_IF_VAR_H
 * #endif
 * 
 * That catches some -current systems before the change, but that
 * shouldn't matter.  It doesn't hit 2.2 machines, since they are frozen
 * to 199701 (even though it's obvious that we won't ship 2.2R by
 * January).

Except this will break when 2.2.5 is released (unless if_var.h is
merged into the -2.2 branch, but you get the point). :(

Satoshi "did I already tell you I hate parallel development?" Asami